Allison Kaplan Sommer

Israel

Allison Kaplan Sommer has been a journalist at Haaretz since 2012. She is the former Washington DC bureau chief for the Jerusalem Post, and has also written for the New Republic, Politico, and other publications. She won a 2016 B’nai B’rith World Center Award for Journalism for Excellence in Diaspora Reportage and the 2017 Simon Rockower award for excellence in covering Zionism, Aliyah and Israel. Originally from Rhode Island in the US, she made aliya in 1993, and lives in Ra’anana (alongside many Australian-Israelis) with her husband and children, two of whom are serving in the IDF.